Collar-support.



P. H. THORANDT & A. KOHN.

COLLAR SUPPORT.

APPLICATION'TILED MAR. 12. 19M.

1,154,550. PatentedSept. 21, 1915.

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PAUL HERMANN THORANDT, OF LICHTERFELDE, NEAR BERLIN, AND ALFRED KOHN, I

0F CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY.

COLLAR-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 21, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PAUL HERMANN THORANDT, a citizen of the German Empire, and residing at Lichterfelde, near Berlin, Germany, and ALFRED KOHN, a citizen of the German Empire, and residing at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Collar-Support, of which the following is a specification.

The subject matter of the present patent application is a new collar support, which is advantageously and essentially distinguished from known collar supports in that the extremities are made of perfectly yielding and highly elastic material.

Most collar supports are capable of compression generally longitudinally. For the purpose of fastening to the particular garment, they have closed eyelets at their extremities. Wearers are often considerably annoyed by these eyelets, which frequently exert an unpleasant pressure when the neck is moved. This disadvantage is avoided in the present invention by the terminal eyelets of the supports beingmade of highly elastic material, so that they give automatically in all directions and yield when the slightest pressure is exerted by the neck.

On the accompanying drawing, the new invention is shown on a wire collar support of serpentine formation.

Figure 1 shows the collar support of this kind in front view. Fig. 2 a magnified View of the end part.

a is a collar support made of elastic wire in the well known way which is provided at its ends With eyelets b, 0, these eyelets may be connected in any desired manner to the remainder of the collar support, for example by the collar 6. This collar 6 may also serve to join the ends of the elastic eyelet. In the form of construction shown, this is done by soldering. The eyelets b and c, in the form of construction shown, consist of a thin spiral spring.

We claim:

1. A collar support comprising a body portion composed of an elastic material capable of longitudinal compression and a yielding eyelet at each end of the body. por tion and positioned in the same plane as the body portion, said eyelets being composed of spiral springs of difi'erent elasticity from the body portion and both ends of each spring connected to said body portion.

2. A collar support comprising a resilient compressible body portion, a plurality of flexible, elastic terminals secured to the body portion, each of said terminals being composed of spiral springs, and a collar positioned within the terminal and operating to join the ends of the spiral spring and to secure said spring to the body portion.

In testimony whereof, we aifix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

PAUL HERMANN THORANDT. ALFRED KOHN.

Witnesses WOLDEMAR HAUPT, EMIL KoTTERITzsoH.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 6. 

